This code contains all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City and includes ordinances dealing with municipal administration, utilities and services, parks and public grounds, streets and sidewalks, zoning and planning, food and health, businesses and trades, building, electrical, heating and plumbing regulations, police regulations [i.e., general regulations] and traffic regulations, and excludes ordinances granting franchises and special privileges, establishing sewer and other public improvement districts, providing for the construction of particular sewers, streets or sidewalks, or for the improvement thereof, and for the construction and improvement of other public works, authorizing borrowing of money or the issuance of bonds. The Zoning Ordinance of the City, being Ord. 72-8-69 of the City, as amended to the date of the adoption of this code, is adopted by reference in Title XV of this code and published by the City as a separate pamphlet, except as section numbers and references to other ordinances of the City are changed to conform to the code numbering system. The adoption of this code shall not be interpreted as authorizing or permitting any use or the continuance of any use of a structure or premises in violation of any ordinance of the City in effect on the date of adoption of this code.
('88 Code, Title I, Ch. 1, § 1.7)